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Acknowledgements

Many people have helped us in finishing this book. They have our great appreci-
ation for the long hours and hard work they devoted to finding and developing
content. Without their patience and persistent assistance, this book would not have
been realized.
We would especially like to thank Prof. Kinshuk from University of North Texas
for the discussion on the planning and framework of this book; thanks go to
Rongxia Zhuang and Lanqin Zheng from Beijing Normal University for organizing
meetings with those developing content and managing the evolution of this book
from a simple framework to a volume rich in content. We would also like to thank
the Springer team coordinated by Melody Zhang for their support and profes-
sionalism in bringing about this volume.
Special thanks to the individuals who did so much work in finding and devel-
oping content. The team included Xiaolin Liu, Jing Du, Peng Chen, Jinghong Li,
Jingjing Xu, who are Ph.D. students from the Smart Learning Institute at Beijing
Normal University. Xiaolin did this work while completing her dissertation which
she has now successfully defended. JingJing Xu contributed to Chaps. 2 and 4.
Xiaolin Liu contributed to Chaps. 3 and 6. Junfeng Yang contributed to Chap. 5.
Jihong Li contributed to Chaps. 7 and 10. Peng Chen contributed to Chaps. 8 and
11. Jing Du contributed to Chaps. 9 and 12.

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